Liam Neeson speaks with a low, hushed tones in the clip for the aptly titled The Silent Man, a film based on the life of Mark Felt, the high-ranking FBI informant revealed to be the infamous “Deep Throat” in the President Richard Nixon Watergate scandal that was chronicles in the Best Picture nominated 1976 film All the President’s Men.

In the timely film acquired by Sony Pictures Classics last week, The Silent Man follows the personal and professional life of Felt, who risked his family and career in the name of the justice and the truth.

Oh noes. With The House Bunny nom’ing on close to $50 million at the box office, Anna Faris dished to MovieHole that she’s dropped out of the 2009 Linda Lovelace biopic Inferno to focus on comedies. Damn you, smart business sense. Over the summer, Faris expressed enthusiasm in playing Lovelace, troubled “star” of the infamous fellatio pic, Deep Throat, who later became an anti-porn crusader and died in a car accident. “You’re not going to even know who I am…I’ll be in a very dark place,” Faris said in June.

Inferno has experienced troubles with funding, so we expected it to be all-systems-go now that Faris is a proven mainstream draw. New lead permitting, the film will be the sophomore effort of director, Matthew Wilder, who helmed the cool-looking pseudo-Philip K. Dick flick, Your Name Here, with Bull Pullman—which still hasn’t seen a domestic release. Sam Rockwell is set to co-star as one of Lovelace’s abusive husbands.

Slashfilm is so tawdry today. The last time I recall reading about Inferno, the Linda Lovelace/Deep Throat biopic with Anna Faris set to star, Vulture was getting lashed by Faris’s dad for making bad puns. Faris now tells MTV that the film, a seedy departure for the goofy comedienne (Smiley Face, the Scary Movies), will likely begin shooting this summer with Slashfilm fave, Sam Rockwell (real name), apparently aboard to play her husband.

“I’m going to do [‘Observe & Report’ with Seth Rogen] first, and then hopefully we’ll get together for the summer. …You’re not going to even know who I am,” she half-joked. “I’m not there right now, but I will be when the time comes. I’ll be in a very dark place.”

In her early 20s, Lovelace (real name/bad pun, Linda Boreman) starred in Deep Throat, the lil’ porno funded by the mob that became a worldwide theatrical/socio-political sensation in 1972. Its broad influence was examined in the 2002 doc, Inside Deep Throat. She was married to two guys widely described as abusive sleazebag opportunists (Rockwell would play the second one), and later led an anti-pornography crusade of sorts, decrying that much of Deep Throat was filmed against her will. She died in 2002, the result of a car accident. The subject matter isn’t too fresh, but I think Faris would be enticingly insane for this role, far stranger than Val Kilmer as John Holmes in Wonderland.